The other evening I was at a meetup (group of people—often strangers—getting together to explore a common interest) that had been meeting to discuss things related to the Celestine insights (based on the book[s] by James Redfield). I'd attended a few in the past, but the approach wasn't entirely the way I was hoping to engage, and I'd fallen out of the practice. This meeting, though, was to discuss the 10th insight, "holding the vision," and because many of the themes that underlie that particular insight have been popping up lately, it seemed a good time to check back in.
A full understanding of this insight is, like so many of the others, complicated, and this is just my interpretation from my reading; still, I think we'll take a few days to go over it, and then maybe we'll backtrack and work in some of the things that made this all make sense to me finally, 15 or so years after I'd first read the Celestine Prophecy.
I've said before that it doesn't matter what your calling is, as long as you find it and are working that direction. For that matter, the important stuff has nothing to do with how you're making a living, although the more closely you can weld spiritual purpose to every part of your life—including the part that pays for what you need to pay for—the happier you'll be. But what's this "holding the vision" stuff about?
Well, it's about digging into why you are really here (the age-old question, right?). Finding out what your role is in human spiritual evolution, and playing that out. It's about not being distracted by fear, or the "wrong" vision, whether yours or someone else's. You get there by digging below the surface, below the path that feels good or right and finding out what the bedrock is made of.
One thing to understand is that the Insights (any insight, for that matter) is not a question of chronology; although coming to certain understandings is often necessary to better understand something that comes later, you don't have to put off studying or living something just because you haven't entirely figured out the first step. What I find is that very frequently, some truth that you uncover will send you right back to an earlier discovery with a new perspective that helps you grow back to that next one, which gives you a new understanding of THAT, and so on. So even if you feel like you haven't quite got here—still fumbling around with the basics—keep going. Incorporate what we've been talking about, the other things you've learned, and know that you're moving forward with every step.
One of the first steps that WILL keep you going back and forth, but in a spiral, not in a stuck line, is the energy clearing we've been discussing. Your energy gets clear, so you can face something you weren't willing to face before, but that brings more energy toxins to the surface, so you need more clearing, etc. And energy clearing will help you get more clear on the truth in your life, which means you (often) get to deal with the delusions next.
Once you've discovered your vision (the one we're talking about holding), that gives you a touchstone or focal point, but it most likely will NOT magically make everything better—because part of what you came to do is likely to include various facets of messy human existence. So you still are going to be working through whatever those experiences are: relationships, prosperity issues, right livelihood, right speech (to use some Buddhist terms), and—and this can be a fun one—other people's reactions to your growth. The closer those people are to you, the harder that can be.
Over the next few days we'll talk about the shamans' four levels of seeing, because it ties into this beautifully, then soul groups, and finally, how to set this into your daily practice and daily reality. Today, we're going to take a giant step back and talk about meditation and chakras for one moment.
Meditation is essential for quieting your mind and learning focus. The ability to hold a focus in meditation—whether on the breath, on counting, on a mantra or image—is key to holding your vision. Meditation, because it trains us to let thoughts pass through without distracting us, also trains us to hold a focus in the midst of ordinary reality—to allow those distractions of our mundane lives to pass through as the temporary forms they are, without pulling us away from our purpose.
Meditation also helps us peel away the onion layers of our armor. We build up these thick walls of protection, constructed of the stories we tell ourselves about right and wrong, of harm done to us, or of power plays we've pulled on others. We construct them out of the shoulda-coulda-woulda list, out of the "gotta do" list, out of bills to pay and people to please and houses to keep up as though those actions can protect us from the rug being pulled out from under us to disclose the oubliette of whatever it was we didn't expect. (I know, great metaphor, isn't it?) What we want to do, though, to complete this life-long journey of spiritual evolution is to be warriors without armor (did I mention it's life-long? Not for everyone, I suppose, but still....). To create a life of conscious spiritual connection and energy evolution. And we can't do it without peeling away the protections we've piled on. Meditation helps us see our stories for what they are, gives us the space to step back before reacting to the new stories – to become an observer – and to stop relying on them for protection.
Your work in clearing your chakras and strengthening the energy centers in and around you is one way to heal the wounds caused—and protected by—the armor. Those chakras that persist in gunking up can tell you where you try hardest to protect yourself, and/or where you're attracting hits, where the lessons you've chosen to learn may sit. Note: just because you've chosen to experience something in this lifetime, it doesn't mean you have to KEEP experiencing it. Learn the lesson, release the karma, and move on--because it's moving on (and up, and deeper) that's kind of the point.
Clear, strengthen, repeat. You're off to an excellent start. Where do you find it hardest to clear? Feel free to comment or email me privately, whether you've got "stuck" or want to share what you find.
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